SAFETY DANCE

Last Friday we tried Break Dancing and it was hard because you need your own space and you also need to work together Dancing you have to be really careful because you can get really damaged.  So if you try to do something new don't do it by yourself.  If your going to do any sort of dance have an adult so always stay SAFE!!! 

My Imaginative Story

I wrote an imaginative story called Wild Horse. I have learnt how to use a numbered brainstorm and add lots of adjectives so I make my writing is interesting for my audience. When I number my brainstorm it makes it easy to write in paragraphs, this also makes it easier for me to write an interesting story.

Fiordland Holiday By Gloria Harvey

Yesterday Room 1's maths group the Spheres got an awesome new game called Fiordland Holiday.

It's a really fun maths game and it's really good way to learn your advanced times tables like on one of the cards it's got on a Milford Sound day tour, see the famous Mirror Lakes Score 3 x 300 points. Then you would work out the equation and in these circumstances  you would have 9oo points! Sometimes you only get to solve a problem but thats still fun.   You travel round the board and if you land on an animal you get the amount of points that's written down on the board. Whoever gets the most points wins the game.I'm really happy we got the new game and I bet people will stay happy using it! 

Ballroom dancing

I learnt that there are many types of dances that link to Ballroom dancing like Tango, Jive, Salsa, and ChaCha. Ballroom dancing is all about flashy costumes and make up. You have to be fit and learn complicated dance skills, such as turns and dips. There are two different types of tango, the American Tango and the International Tango. Tango came from Argentina and made its way to Europe and gained popularity in Paris. As the European dancers enjoyed the music and the passion of the dance, they began to inject their own culture, style and technique. In an effort to teach a standardized version of Tango, the English eventually codified their own version of Tango for instruction in dance schools and for preformance in competitions in 1922.

Morris dancing

Last Wednesday a group of Morris Dancers came to our school to show us some dances.  I learnt that because the Morris Dancers used to dance in barns, they wore bells around their ankles to scare away the mice, but the bells also help keep the beat. They also used big hankies for some dances and they used them to scare away any witches that might have been about.  Morris Dancing is usually about things that happen in their everyday lives, like a rain or sunshine dance.   My favorite dance was the Lollypop Dance.   

Dance Term 2 2008

This term we are having a school Dance Festival and we are looking at different styles of dance. So far we have learnt that ...
- people dance for fun
- we dance on special occasions
- people enter dance competitions
- dance is for everyone young and old
- cultural dancing shows where people are from
- there are loads of different styles you can learn
- value your body and how it moves
I can't dance but I am looking forward to learning about it.

Sand Sculptures

On Wedsnesday the 2nd of April, Waikawa Bay School went to Whites Bay. We did lots of activities but my favourite was making the sand sculptures. There were turtles, whales, sand castles and a whole lot more. I made a seahorse and I am very proud of it. My friends made great sculptures too.